Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-28
INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW.
The Order Suspending Section Four fe
the TranscontinentalR Roads.

tne lranSCOntlnentdi ROdoss
Following is the order of the Commission
relieving the Southern Pacific from the OPP
Grafton of the haul clause:
The Interstate Commerce Commission.
at session held at its rooms, in the city of
Washington, on the 23d day of April. 1887,
in the matter of the petition of the South
ern Pacific Company. application having
been made to the Interstate Commerce
Commission, under Section of the Act of
Congress entitled An Act to regulate COM
merce, }" by the Southern Pacific Company,
common carrier subject to the provisions
of said Act, for authority to charge less for
a longer than for shorter distance in GER
tain cases; that is to say, for the transport
tation of property. First-Between San
Francisco Sacramento, Stockton, Marys-
vile, San Jose, Oakland, Los Angeles and
San Diego in California; Portland and As
toria, in Oregon Tacoma, in Washington
Territory Victoria, in British Columbia
and FL Paso, in Texas on the enc hand,
and New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Newport News, Richmond and all
points commonly rated with them. or
either of them on the other hand. Second
Between the same western points and
Chicago, st. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans
and points east thereof Third-Between
the same western points and Galveston and
Houston, in Texas, and points on the Mis-
souri, river and east thereof, at lower rates
than are charged between the same eastern
points, respectively, and local points on the
line of said petitioner, and said common
carrier having presented as a reason for
granting its said application the existence
of water competition and other competing
agencies not subject to the Act to regulate
commerce, claiming that the rates to and
from the said points which must be met in
order to obtain through business are too
low to enable said common carrier to carry
on its business il applied to intermediate
local points, and further claiming that
great disturbance of business will occur if
the provisions of the fourth section of said
Act are Immediately applied according to a
construction thereof which shall treat the
business above distinguished as substan-
tally similar in its circumstances and con-
nections, and it appearing to the Commits
sion, after an investigation of said petition
and the facts presented in support thereof,
to be proper case for a temporary order
until the Commission can make complete
examination of the matters alleged as rea-
sons for relieving said common carrier
from the operation of said section of said
Act, 1t Is ordered that the said application
be and the same is hereby granted tempo
rarlly, subject TO modification or revocation
by the Commission at any time upon hear
ing or otherwise, and the said Southern
Pacific Company is hereby temporarily re-
lieyed from the operation of Section of
said Act to the extent specified in the re-
citals of the order and for a period not
greater than seventy-five days from this
date; subject, however, to the restriction
that while this order remains in force said
common carrier shall not charge or receive
compensation for the transportation of
property between stations on its line where
more is charged for a shorter than for a
longer haul which shall be greater than
the rates hitherto in force prior to the Goth
day of April, instant. 1t is further con-
dition of this order that printed copy
hereof shall be forthwith publicly posted
and kept with the schedule rates and
charges at every station upon the line of
said company, for the use of the public
For the Commission.
I. NJ. COOLEY, Chairman.